Comments Thread For: John David Jackson Amused by Perception of Kovalev-Ward Fight

[daggum]

And? That's what happens with a close fight, you end up with knowledgeable people falling on opposite sides of the line.

The fact is that Kovalev started off strong and even got a knockdown...but by the end of the night many unbiased observers STILL felt Andre Ward had won.

That just goes to show how tight some of those rounds were and that there is a range of scores that would be fair and reasonable.

The decision was no robbery.

only people who scored it for ward think they were tight. thats the problem. people who know how to score and can count see that kov landed more punches and they saw that kov's punches were much cleaner and harder. people that scored it for ward come up with excuses why and think body work that isnt necessarilly landing clean is better than clean shots. obv if you read the rules it says clean punching so you are in the wrong and you know it.

[JASON SHAW]

funny that there are no complaints about kovs holding when leading up to the fight that was all we saw posters complaining about

its a pattern man! Only black american fighters get called for holding by the racist boxing fan base and press.... If you are mexican, filipino or russian you get away with clinching and head locks all night..... The double standards are sickening.....

[r1onnie2]

JDJ is cool but to say Ward just tried to survive after the knockdown isn't true because Ward took the fight to Kovalev after the knockdown. Also Kovalev didn't take his foot off the gas, those body shots took the gas out of him.

[Low_Blows_420]

Ignorant people want to always make it a race thing a black& white thing. No idio7s Ward has always fought like that hit and hold b.s. style. No man desrves a win and definitely 3 belts from the champ after getting knocked down and losing 7 rounds and fighting on his bicycle hitting and holdin the whole fight. Ever.

[Weltschmerz]

And? That's what happens with a close fight, you end up with knowledgeable people falling on opposite sides of the line.

The fact is that Kovalev started off strong and even got a knockdown...but by the end of the night many unbiased observers STILL felt Andre Ward had won.

That just goes to show how tight some of those rounds were and that there is a range of scores that would be fair and reasonable.

The decision was no robbery.

Problem is, in order to give Ward the decision, you'd have to give him the edge in all of the swing rounds and that isn't an unbiased way to go about it. If you want to make it a very even fight you can give them 6 rounds each and Kovalev wins it 114-113 with the KD.

[aboutfkntime]

Delusional.

"Took his foot off the gas". Sounds like GGG's trainer when he talks about GGG letting his opponents punch him in the face.

Kovalev was fatigued from missing punches, wrestling and Ward's body work. If he had the energy to keep his foot on the gas he would've.

yea, and Roach's "Pac didn't knock him out because he felt sorry for him" bunk.

[aboutfkntime]

Hey mang, wtf is this?



I thought the Pacquiao fans one was funny but this one is even funnier.

Anyway, the Kovalev bandwagoners probably feel pretty betrayed right now. They have been crying robbery and making excuses and in comes JDJ admitting they probably gave the fight away.

hahahahahhahahahaha

word i like it its the truth!

ahahah I'm with you guys

hope you don't mind bigjavi

[aboutfkntime]

Crucial point is he didn't win all of it. Kovalev won 10 & 12 clearly for me. Pretty much won most of the first half too..

I think truth is if we are to take all the collective thought then neither man really separated themselves from each other, but overall over 12 full rounds i think Kovalev was more dominant, higher accuracy, more damage & was the fighter who won the rounds that were CLEARLY his more dominantly. Ward stole a few..

Under these circumstances it is unreasonable of you to suggest that any opinion other than yours means irrationality & unknowing of the sport.

Kovalev was NOT more accurate

THAT was his problem

he missed a TON of punches

[aboutfkntime]

And? That's what happens with a close fight, you end up with knowledgeable people falling on opposite sides of the line.

The fact is that Kovalev started off strong and even got a knockdown...but by the end of the night many unbiased observers STILL felt Andre Ward had won.

That just goes to show how tight some of those rounds were and that there is a range of scores that would be fair and reasonable.

The decision was no robbery.

very well said

[bigjavi973]

ahahah I'm with you guys

hope you don't mind bigjavi

nope dont mind at all!